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• waste to a landfill anymore. Organic waste is food, grass clipping textiles, and anything that's organic. Now, we, Athens did. In
• . And the city, when they buy things they need to get credit for reducing methane gas in the Athens proposal to the city
• . All the, all the organic waste is gonna have to go in there. Now the good news is you have Athens, so if you
• and routes. We bought, we in this city will have about five or six Jeeps that say Athens services, right on
• another slide I have to do, and when I say I, I mean Athens, not Gary Clifford. Right? We have to do
• that stays with Athens, with the city and with Cal Recycle, it's an audited report from a similar city as it
• the, a Athens is in the education business. We're not, I was a policeman in my prior career. I'm not a
• know in the past with Athens that people with big yards, you would give 'em other green, additional green trash cans
• not do that. And that code enforcement is not the city's code enforcement, it's Athens Code Enforcement. No, It'd be
• the city code enforcement enforce Athens recycling coordinator. And that probably be who would visit you. So those, that truck
• have Athens Recycling, that's an Athens lid flipper driving an Athens truck, hopefully not reporting anything, just auditing. He
• of this and it says Athens and West Covina portal will contain this data. Residential audits, commercial audits, waste
• news for West Covina is it says Athens will utilize R N g that counts towards their goal and we give the
• that you have so well at least shown us two models thus far. Are these models that you're, that Athens is
• bundle it up, I put it out there and I call Athens and say I have five bundles of green and they
• other is part of the contract too. Yeah, but you took it away. I, when I signed up with Athens, that was
• time with you personally from the, the standpoint of the state of California and and Athens because I want you to
• , honestly, forget that I work for Athens. Just treat me as a, as a, as a creature of God in the room
• with you right now. Is anybody unhappy with our service from Athens? Yes, you are. Okay. I I see a lot of
• problems Athens in the past better now, but I'm telling you what I saw when I went in there told, get a
• three chances you would eventually cut me off right at the Denise, whether it was the city Athens or a combination
• Athens lose a profit in the recycling business and of it. But for us residents, we've lost that service. Now for a
• whether at their request or like I said, it wasn't, uh, that I was just saying Athens took it away from us
• . It was either Athens, the city or combination of the two. Why was it taken away, uh, with no notification and
• those doors, I ask them, what's your charge? And I said, nevermind have Athens taken. Yeah. They'll say it's
• , with, um, with Athens. I promise you I'll bring back that annual cleanup. I'll, I'll I'll make that happen. I'll
• . Rolling. Thank you. Um, Mr. Clifford, uh, the one, um, I, I really enjoyed visiting Athens a, a short while ago
• about Athens is the fact that we are a privately held company. The fact that we are really good in the relational
• what? An Athens facility cuz guess who runs, you know where Pointy Hills is. Guess who runs Pointy Hills now? Athens
• Services. Yeah. The county hired Athens to run Plenty Hills for 25 years. We now run Plenty Hills. We run Dart
• . So the haulers bring that now to Athens. The the Blue Barrel and then the Green Barrel they have to take to
• an organic company. And guess who owns an organic company themselves? Athens. So that's why we can internalize this stuff
• Angeles just voted to send all their organic waste to Athens services and pay us millions of dollars to process it
• region, brought to an Athens facility and taken either to Victorville or up north to um, uh, pear Blossom or Lamont
• . You'll see city of Culver City trash trucks there, and you'll see the small haulers bringing their collected waste to Athens
• low income process that you have, then you come to Athens and we follow that same method. It's in place now

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• other question is on a different matter with regard to the Athens event this Thursday. Um, will the, will the folks
• questions that they have about Athens. I've already, uh, emailed them to, to let Athens know that, that residents do
• have questions on another number of matters. So can you please relay word to Athens that they need to be prepared to

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• . And, and I think it's important. Trash days Hate that. Um, just out of general interest, I'm gonna have the Athens
• for the poll or can we close it? Uh, I think need more contractor a We have a contract with National Athens
• . We're gonna bring Athens in on February 9th and talk to them about SB 1 3 83, the implementing of that program. Correct

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• , I've, I've appreciated you as mayor, um, being able to, to talk to you about things like, um, you know, Athens

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• for certain situations, if community members need assistance for due to their abilities or seniors, do they help out? We help out wherever we can specifically with trash can issues. If somebody has the inability to to bring out or take back their trash cans, we refer them to Athens
• for certain situations, if community members need assistance for due to their abilities or seniors, do they help out? We help out wherever we can specifically with trash can issues. If somebody has the inability to to bring out or take back their trash cans, we refer them to Athens
• somebody has, uh, the inability to, to bring out or take back their trash cans, uh, we refer them to Athens for

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• reason why I'm here tonight is to talk about cleanup Saturdays because of c the city council and Athens Curbed. The, um
• Athens, um, provides a number of those benefits continually. So any of us who are Athens customers in West Covena can
• the former mayor and also with the Athens representative to see if we can't market that. And if we could make
• single week. No, I, there's an interest in doing what you're suggesting. I'm happy to explore that with Athens as well
• loud and clear, and I'll see if we can do both. I'm meeting quite more often now with Athens around the SB 1 30

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• taken from Suburban Water, Athens and TransTech to name a few of the companies. But remember, we paid them for their

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• , George. Regarding the trash cans, Athens already offers that service free of charge. Who Athens services are trash hauler off
• that it will, we will verify with Athens, but my understanding is that it's free of charge for seniors who need
• corporately with the Athens. We'll follow up on your suggestion, Mayor, that we try and get the word out about the
• available services for Athens. And also maybe top five or top 10 code enforcement issues. It could be easily remedied

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• MEASURES TO COMPLY WITH CALIFORNIA SENATE BILL 1383, NPDES STORMWATERREGULATIONS, AND AMENDMENTS TO THE ATHENS

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• haven't been here for awhile. Thank you. I'm here to speak about a subject that pains me. It's called the Athens
• two audits by state agencies. Both of them were extremely critical of the city about because of the Athens contract
• 18. Tonight. This agenda item has several parts, regulatory compliance, the city's business practices, how much Athens is going
• gross receipts as a franchise fee to the city. And Athens kicks back to the city $300,000 to be used at
• the city's description discretion. Option one is the better option for no party except Athens option one, add services to the
• Athens contract that has nothing to do with refuge collection or SB 1383 compliance. Those unrelated services are graffiti
• those services. Athen kick Athens kicks back to the city. $1.2 million annually that's $1.2 million does not come out of
• Athens profits. It comes directly out of the residents' pocketbooks. The residents that you represent, The Athens contract amendment
• raises another of other concerns as well. Due to time limitations, I will mention just one. The Athens contract has that
• audits, adding services to the Athens evergreen contract and adding those services without competitive bidding is inappropriate and violates
• . I was going to speak on the Athens, but I don't think I can add any more to what previous speakers have
• , readjusted their grievances. We welcome that and we're glad they're here. Um, four of our speakers tonight spoke about the Athens
• , who is our contract, um, representative of our contract street sweeper that Athens contract would, if amended for
• in services or across seven categories. These regulations have prompted changes to our current trash agreement with Athens
• in which Athens would provide at least 100 hours per week of graffiti removal services valued at 550,000, a
• recovery program, uh, with the cog and to either amend the agreement with Athens to either include the
• , continue negotiations with Athens. That concludes my presentation. And at this time I'll take any questions. Okay. Any
• questions of staff? Okay. Um, I've got a question. How about, um, have we had discussions with Athens related to
• Wednesday Athens we got in while we'll be the proper charge. So in that way, Alice, we don't have to
• with Athens. We have at least another, you know, 26 years together. Uh, and so, you know, I think, you
• out right. The cost to the residents and, you know, Athens, you know, does have a guarantee for the
• we should keep this separate from a contract with the Athens. I think that we should move forward with having
• negotiations with Athens so that we're not rushed because we are rushed right now. I mean, we have this, this
• continue negotiations with Athens And the other part, this, uh, Councilman to by mentions that we're going to see
• negotiate with the Athens. Okay. To find a common ground is my emotion. And if you could, uh, reach out
• , at least strong emphasis, um, to look at alternative options of how to work with Athens, um, related to
• option three, which is to continue to negotiate with Athens. All right, Correct. Yeah. In the fashion, I mentioned

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• eager to offload, uh, the responsibility to keep the city graffiti free to Athens, which is, which is a tax increase
• , uh, when we pay the, uh, increased fees to Athens. But, uh, on the contrary, they, the council seems eager to